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Angela Alsobrooks: “Heart disease...is the number one killer of women.”

Featuring: Angela Alsobrooks, Democratic | U.S. Senate Maryland

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A conversation with Senate freshman women

Published | Video Starts at 09:59

Heart disease, you know, it's the reason that I've been able to work with Katie Britt, with whom I don't agree on every issue, but women in Alabama are dying at the same rate as women in Maryland. It's Heart disease...is the number one killer of women. And so heart disease should not be normalized for women. We should be finding out why this is true. Why is it that two thirds of all Alzheimer's patients are women? (09:59–10:12)

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Asserts that heart disease is the leading cause of death among women.

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